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Learn C# in 7 days

You're reading from   Learn C# in 7 days Get up and running with C# 7 with async main, tuples, pattern matching, LINQ, regex, indexers, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787287044
Length 306 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Day 01 - Overview of the .NET Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. Day 02 - Getting Started with C# 3. Day 03 - What's New in C# 4. Day 04 - Discussing C# Class Members 5. Day 05 - Overview of Reflection and Collections 6. Day 06 - Deep Dive with Advanced Concepts 7. Day 07 - Understanding Object-Oriented Programming with C# 8. Day 08 - Test Your Skills – Build a Real-World Application

Beautifying code using attributes


Attributes provide a way to associate information with code. This information could be as simple as a message/warning or can contain a complex operation or code itself. These are declared simply with the help of tags. These also help us to beautify our code by supplying inbuilt or custom attributes. Consider the following code:

private void PeerOperation() 
{ 
    //other stuffs 
    WriteLine("Level1 is completed."); 
    //other stuffs 
} 

In this method, we show an informational message to notify the peer. The preceding method will be decorated with the help of an attribute. Consider the following code:

[PeerInformation("Level1 is completed.")] 
private void PeerOperation() 
{ 
    //other stuffs 
} 

Now, we can see that we just decorated our method with the help of an attribute.

According to the official documentation [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tutorials/attributes], attributes provide a way of associating information with code in a declarative...

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